An anthology much like ''BatmanGothamKnight'', framed as Hal Jordan telling tales of the GreenLantern Corps to the newly recruited Arisia as they prepare to fight an attack from the Antimatter Universe.

While something of a tie-in to the [[Film/GreenLantern Live Action Film]] it's not in the same continuity, and shares the drawing style and character models with ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'', though it's not a sequel to that either (where Hal is the rookie and Arisia is the veteran).

The anthology, with a framing story that is loosely based on the first ''Tales of The Green Lantern Corps.'' ComicBook miniseries, contains the following stories, which are mostly adapted from comic storylines going from the Eighties to the current volume, of:* The First Lantern,* Kilowog, based upon the story "New Blood"* Laira, based upon the story "What Price Honor?"* Mogo Doesn't Socialize, based upon the Creator/AlanMoore story of the same name.* Abin Sur, based upon "Tygers", also by Alan Moore.

----!!This film provides examples of:* AlienBlood: Deegan bleeds green. Jaydians bleed blue.* AndTheAdventureContinues: Hal continues to share stories with Arisia as the film ends.* AnimatedAdaptation: Most stories come from the comics and some are done by the original authors.* {{Animesque}}: Laira's face goes there sometimes. She also gets a TransformationSequence.** Arisia also has a moment when Krona looms behind her and she does the "raise shoulders, wide eyes, gritted teeth, body shiver" number.* ArcVillain: Laira, Mogo, and Abin Sur's stories each feature a single primary villain (Kentor, Bolphunga, and Atrocitus respectively).* AnAxeToGrind: Bolphunga wields an [[ShockAndAwe electrified]] one.* AntiVillain: Laira's father, Kentor.* ArtShift: "The First Lantern" and "Kilowog" have a decidedly more cartoony style and proportions compared to the other shorts, which may be because those are the ones that focus the least on human-like aliens. The stories of both aren't LighterAndSofter though, they match up pretty well to the rest of the film and it isn't as dramatic a shift as similar DTV movies have done.* AsYouKnow: The way the Guardians expose who Krona is and why he was imprisoned. Also, for some reason, Kentor needs to remind his daughter how she became a Green Lantern.* {{Badass}}: Plenty of them, with Deegan being a good example.--> '''Deegan''': "In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night, no evil shall escape my sight...'''YOU FREAKIN' BASTARDS!!'''* BadFuture: Atrocitus tells of a future where Sinestro and his Corps destroy the GLC and conquer the universe.* BerserkButton: Mogo seemed pretty content to let Bolphunga rampage across his surface cutting things. After all, what's a few trees to an entire planet? Then Bolphunga tried to firebomb the entire surface, so Mogo stopped screwing around.* {{BFS}}: Avra makes one as the first construct ever created from a Green Lantern ring. He then ''cuts a starship in half''.* BigBad: Krona, of the framing story.* BigDamnHeroes:** [[spoiler:Sinestro, Kilowog and Laira blast in to save Arisia from a Shadow Demon.]]** [[spoiler:Mogo in the final battle, single-handedly killing Krona's entire Shadow Demon army and pushing the planet into him when he was previously holding it at bay.]] He's literally a ''big'' damn hero.* BigEntrance: Mogo's BigDamnHeroes moment. Arisia sums it up: "He may not socialize, but he sure does know how to make an entrance."* BloodKnight: Bolphunga, his hunger for battle only matched by his hunger for [[BigEater food]].* ChekhovsGunman‎: Mogo.* ChekhovsSkill: Arisia says that she was taking physics classes before she became a Green Lantern. Guess who's the one to point out the best way to destroy anti-matter.* TheChosenMany: And these are their stories.* CloseCallHaircut: Laira gets this in the fight with [[spoiler: her father]].* CoDragons: Ree'yu and Rubyn, to Kantor.* ConspicuousCGI: Bolphunga's spacecraft.* ContinuityNod: Laira's [[TransformationSequence transformation sequence]] when she first puts on the ring is the same as Hal's from [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight First Flight]].* CouldntFindAPen: Deegan draws the GL symbol on Kilowog with his own green blood.* CreatorCameo: Bruce Timm as Galius Zed [[spoiler:which is also a DeathByCameo]].* DeadpanSnarker:--> '''Arisia''': Where is everyone?--> '''Sinestro''': Patrolling the Sun. Things are starting to get ''hot'' out there.** Also Abin Sur---> '''Sinestro''': I've seen you look better, my friend.---> '''Abin Sur''': And I've seen you look worse.* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the original story, Bolphunga flies away, and Mogo may not even have ''noticed'' his visit.]]* DramaticIrony: A bunch of holograms show happy moments from Laira and her father's lives as they fight.** As usual, references to Sinestro being a good guy who'd never betray the Corps are played for as much of this as possible.* DrillSergeantNasty: Deegan. And Kilowog, obviously (although not as bad as Deegan).--> '''Kilowog''': "First combat?"--> '''Arisia''': "...Yes."--> '''Kilowog''': "Don't worry, Rookie. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt This]] ain't gonna be half as bad as boot camp."* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Oa. After it has been shoved into Krona's face. [[HurlItIntoTheSun And thrown in the sun]].]] * FantasyCounterpartCulture: Laira's homeworld, Jayd, to Asian cultures, as in the comics.* {{Foreshadowing}}: Back to back of all things.--> '''Atrocitus''': There [[BlackestNight are things]] [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than death]], Green Lantern.--> '''Sinestro''': If I had a Power Ring for every time I heard that, [[SinestroCorpsWar I would have my own Corps.]]* GreenLanternRing:** Though the story of the first Lantern shows that the Guardians didn't think of using the rings for constructs, meaning they just thought it would be a powerful force field/laser beam, and not the all purpose device it is.* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Krona. The anthology format doesn't have time to make him anything else, but it's particularly noticeable since Kilowog's and Laira's stories were able to carry the emotional weight that Krona's lacks completely.* GeniusLoci: Mogo doesn't socialize.* HeroicWillpower: In addition to literally powering the Corps, Avra gets this when things seem hopeless for the recruits.* HonorBeforeReason: Laira's father commits war crimes in order to regain the honor he thinks he lost because Laira (a newly minted Green Lantern) had called for help from the Corps in order to turn back the invasion of her planet, as opposed to using her new powers to help her father win the battle.* HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:After hitting it with a planet.]]* HypocriticalHumor: Hal says that Laira "hasn't been around long", but Laira's flashback shows that Abin Sur was still alive when she became a GL, meaning that Laira has been a Lantern for longer than Jordan has,* {{Kamehamehadoken}}: Avra shoots one during a training scene.* KirbyDots: When Krona appears.* KnightTemplar: The king of Jayd.* LargeHam: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Bolphunga, and Wade Williams as Deegan.* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Lavender Skinned Space Babe]]: Laira.* LittleNo: Sinestro utters one when he thinks Abin Sur has been killed by an exploding Lantern battery.* MythologyGag: [[RuleOfThree Mogo doesn't socialize]].** Hal Jordan alludes to Ch'p, an alien squirrel-like Lantern, though he is unnamed but briefly seen. (In ''First Flight'' he does have a few lines.) * NewMeat: Arisia* NoodleIncident: Hal ends the movie with one.--> '''Hal''': C'mon, I'll tell you about the time I took on an army of Manhunters, and my only backup was this squirrel...* OhCrap: Deegan when [[spoiler: the Khunds go for TankGoodness]].** And Bolphunga when he realizes exactly how screwed he is, when Mogo finally reveals himself.* [[OneManArmy One Lantern Army]]: The first four Lanterns against an Armada.* PlotHole: At the start of Abin Sur's story, he asks who Atrocitus is. Atrocitus doesn't give his name, but after his battery is destroyed Abin calls him by name. No explanation is given for how he learned it.* ProphecyTwist: Oa was said to be destroyed in the battle. [[spoiler: It was. Not in a good way for the bad guys, though.]]* RecursiveAmmo: Khundians are fond of these.* RebelliousPrincess: Laira* RRatedOpening: Shadow Demons ripping a Lantern apart.* SceneryPorn: The long panning shot of Mogo's surface.* ScrewDestiny: Sinestro's viewpoint, contrasting his friend [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Abin Sur]].* SecretTestOfCharacter: this is implied to be the reason behind Deegan's mockery of Kilowog's tendency to put himself in danger to save his fellow recruits* {{Seppuku}}: Laira's father commits a PG version of this.* ShoutOut:** Deegan to ''FullMetalJacket''.*** As an interesting point of fact, the character of Deegan is referred to in the ''BlackestNight'' comics as "Ermey", a direct ShoutOut to the man who '''played''' the aforementioned DrillSergeantNasty, RLeeErmey.** Laira's transformation sequence also resembles Anime/SailorMoon's.* SpacePolice* SuperHeroOrigin: The first story is about the first four Lanterns and their first mission, showing the origin of the Corps.* ThisIsADrill: Seen as a ring construct during "The First Lantern" story.* {{Unperson}}: Though he wrote two of the stories that are retold here, Creator/AlanMoore's name is conspicuously absent from the credits. This is probably at his insistence; he looks very poorly on adaptations of his work.* VillainousBreakdown: Bolphunga spends weeks on a planet searching in vain for Mogo, slowly being driven insane from chasing endless reports of green lantern energy from his recon drones that lead to nothing. So he tries to firebomb the surface, which is completely undone in seconds while a giant Lantern symbol materializes. Finally he realizes [[GeniusLoci what Mogo is]]. He doesn't take it well.* WhamShot: While the viewers [[ItWasHisSled likely weren't surprised]], [[spoiler:Mogo's WorldHealingWave]] certainly acts as one for Bolphunga.* WolverineClaws: Laira's brother.* WorldHealingWave: Mogo does this to himself when Bolphunga tries to bomb the entire surface, reversing the damage in a few seconds before forming a giant GL logo on his surface to show Bolphunga that he's messed with the ''wrong planet''.----